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Carpet soaked....Need Recs
I live in New Germany, MN and was gone for the weekend, came back to a soaked carpet in the basement. Have been working on getting water sucked out and so far have got roughly 15 gallons out.
I need recommendations for someone to come out and rip up the carpet and tell us if we need to replace or just to get air underneath it. We haven't lived here that long, so don't know where to start.
Please Help!! Someone in the Hutchinson/St. Boni/Waconia/Watertown area, etc.?
Thanks so much!
Re: Carpet soaked....Need Recs
Step 1) Get as much dried out as you can, then go over it with a Rug Doctor using the Rug Doctor Pet Odor/Enzyme cleaner (even if you don't use the brand carpet cleaner, the detergent worked the best out of anything we tried previously - even lifted a stain that was in DD's carpet since we moved in 5 years ago). The enzyme cleaner works a little better than the other stuff... Get the fans and dehumidifier going and get it dried out.
Step 2) After it is dry, if there is a funky odor or coloring to the carpet rip it out and replace. You can skip step 1 if you really want because if it went all weekend without being noticed, it's a little iffy, and carpet in the grand scheme of things is not that expensive to replace..
If not for having caught the flooding in our basement as it was happening Friday and then again yesterday AM and got going right away to get all the moisture sucked out, I probably would have just opted to rip the carpet out and replace it with more of a "floating floor" type option. If you have someone out, you're going to pay them to give you either one of those two options. The more important thing is to figure out how the water got in there in the first place and fix that part of the problem so you won't have to deal with that type of problem ever again!